[175157] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Thu Oct 9 17:18:47 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAPkb-7AKPnJq7jUFJsacfeK4aSOMqx-UKbQ_BjETi6RHg4M8MQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 04:18:33 +0700
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Oct 10, 2014, at 4:13 AM, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> My colleges wanted to completely drop using public IP addressing in =
the infrastructure.
Your colleagues are wrong. Again, see RFC6752.
> I am wondering if all the nay sayers would not agree that is it better =
to have a single public loopback address shared between all my =
interfaces, than to go with private addressing completely?
This is a false dichotomy.
> Because frankly, that is the alternative.
It isn't the only alternative. The *optimal* alternative is to use =
publicly-routable link addresses, and then protect your infrastructure =
using iACLs, GTSM, CoPP, et. al.
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